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Has anyone heard of the Guix-based distribution called rde?
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It is just another Guix channel, like nonguix. People tend to forget about how easy it is to extend Guix.
I'm literally a newb to Guix, so please forgive me for my ignorance.
But while using (parts of) rde by regarding it as a channel is found within its documentation, I don't think it's the full picture. Like, rde is also a distro, at least by the admission of its creator. The same can not be said about nonguix. So, to be frank, I don't think it's just another Guix channel.
Having said that, I am still very new to all of this. So, if I'm incorrect and/or my understanding is lacking, then please feel free to correct/educate me on this.
Think of Guix like a pile of mud that you can mold and shape it to have nearly any properties that you want.
Those molding steps that create RDE do create an operating system but at its core, it is just a shaping of that pile of mud.
In such if we define an operating system in those terms, then every Guix user has created their own distro as well.
Also if you look at the history, guix home was first developed in RDE, and then upstreamed to Guix. So the two projects are very close.
Hi, how it works is that RDE is like a big guix configuration. So it makes like a superset of Guix System.
So it can be considered a distro based on Guix if you want, although its just Guix with a channel on the technical side.